ALBANY — After two decades representing the city, Assemblyman Jack McEneny is considering retirement and says he will reveal his decision next week.

The Pine Hills-raised Democrat has confided in several political allies that he is seriously considering leaving the Legislature, three people familiar with the talks said — and just days before the Albany County Democratic Committee meets to discuss the party slate in November.

McEneny told the Times Union Friday evening that he is uncertain about seeking an 11th term.

He is set to meet with the party's candidate review panel Saturday.

"(I'm) considering it in both directions," he said. "I'll wait until I have my meeting (with the review committee), and I won't give a 'yes' or 'no' for a while. But not later than Wednesday."

The party's 600-plus committee members will convene Wednesday at the Polish Community Center on Washington Avenue Extension for the its annual spring meeting — a full two months earlier than usual because of the accelerated primary for federal offices.

A side effect of the court-ordered June primary for congressional seats is that longtime lawmakers like McEneny — many of whom are weighing their futures after this year's redrawing of district lines — may be forced to make up their minds much sooner than they had originally planned.

Primaries for state offices are set to be held in September.

McEneny, one of the few active Democratic stalwarts whose resume stretches back to the administration of Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd, acknowledged Friday he urged Albany County Democratic Chairman Matthew Clyne to delay the party endorsements for state offices until later in the spring. The party typically convenes in May.

Clyne could not be reached for comment late Friday.

"It's serious consideration, but I don't think he's made up his mind," one of the people familiar with McEneny's thinking said. "I think it's 80 percent, but to be honest with you, I honestly don't think Jack knows yet."

McEneny was tightly entwined with this year's redistricting process, serving as the Democratic co-chair of LATFOR, the legislative task force charged with drawing new district lines. The task meant traveling around the state for hearings and often winding up on the receiving end of complaints, suggestions and nitpicks from his fellow lawmakers.

The job also meant public sneers from good-government groups, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch and even Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who all denounced the LATFOR process for protecting incumbents.

(Cuomo ended up reversing a campaign pledge to veto its lines in exchange for amendments to the law and state constitution to exclude lawmakers from the process — in 10 years.)

McEneny did not start with a particularly warm relationship with Cuomo, and their exchanges throughout the redistricting process — during which McEneny was not shy in his defenses of LATFOR — did not improve things.

McEneny, 69, who lives in the Buckingham Pond neighborhood, is not only one of the city and county's elder statesmen, but also one of their devoted historians — a role he also fills at the Capitol as one of the foremost experts on the building's rich and star-crossed past.

First elected in 1992, McEneny represents the 104th Assembly District, which spans most of the city of Albany, of Guilderland, New Scotland and the Hilltowns. Under the new lines he helped draw, his district would become the 109th and lose some of his beloved home city and all of the Hilltowns in exchange for gaining Bethlehem.

Should McEneny opt not to run, his departure could ignite a free-for-all among aspiring county Democrats.

Last week, Democratic Assemblyman Bob Reilly of Colonie announced he would not seek re-election — despite having recently held a fundraiser.

Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari, a Cohoes Democrat who also represents parts of the city of Albany, confirmed he, too, will meet with the screening committee on Saturday.

Canestrari has said he is running for re-election, and said he's simply "staying on course."